Local Elections (not that London) 2024

[PR1Berske]

 

[Puddy_Tat]

(at them not you)

although there are times it's hard to tell the LD's and tories apart...

 

[PR1Berske]

Aaaah yes. Think the colours are the clue here (and that account has been working for three days straight at this point!)

 

[Silas Loom]

West Mids is beginning to look more likely for Parker than Street, if Wolverhampton is any kind of bellwether.

 

[brogdale]

Quite a pasting for the vermin in Stroud...

 

[Silas Loom]

The Greens. Socialist revolutionaries in cities, nimbies in the sticks. Worse trimmers than the LDs.

 

[The39thStep]

West Mids is beginning to look more likely for Parker than Street, if Wolverhampton is any kind of bellwether.

what happened to Labour blaming Gaza?

 

[Silas Loom]

what happened to Labour blaming Gaza?

Depends on the bundle recount, but 3000 is the lead that Street needs to overturn. So I expect we’ll hear less about Yakoob than we would have otherwise.

 

[DotCommunist]

JimW some good news from biscuit tin lid country

 

[Silas Loom]

And a full recount in Coventry now, so West Mids result won’t be for a couple of hours. Possibly Street is asking for this just so there is less time for the Sunday papers to ring round angry MPs and get “Sunak is a bit crap” quotes.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

the tory nonentity has won the pointless police commissioner election in thames valley (berkshire, buckinghamshire, oxfordshire) but with a significant swing to labour compared to last time round.

overall turnout 25% - as low as 15% in bracknell forest borough (where there weren't any local elections at the same time)

Thames Valley PCC: Matthew Barber re-elected

The Conservative has been in the role since May 2021.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[brogdale]

 

[belboid]

Close as hell in West Mids. Labour 11k behind with one (very Labour) council area to declare. I'm not sure if I hope the 65k (ish) votes for the Pro Gaza indie candidate costs them the election or not.

 

[brogdale]

Close as hell in West Mids. Labour 11k behind with one (very Labour) council area to declare. I'm not sure if I hope the 65k (ish) votes for the Pro Gaza indie candidate costs them the election or not.

The Curtice computer says LP probably win:

 

[ska invita]

Is he still in a job John Curtice? last two election nights I stayed up for he spectacularly got totally wrong right up to about 2 am (which is several hours of chatting on TV). Brexit and Trump I think they were, might've been 2017 UK though. Huffed and puffed with overconfidence then went very quiet

 

[Silas Loom]

Labour already celebrating Sandwell and West Mids. Sunak’s expectation management may just bite him on the arse now.

 

[belboid]

yup, actually claiming victory now

 

[Bingoman]

Sky News is reporting that Labour have won the west Midlands mayor

 

[redsquirrel]

Is he still in a job John Curtice? last two election nights I stayed up for he spectacularly got totally wrong right up to about 2 am (which is several hours of chatting on TV). Brexit and Trump I think they were, might've been 2017 UK though. Huffed and puffed with overconfidence then went very quiet

I don't remember Trump but on the EU referendum he was saying Remain was in trouble from the first results.

 

[belboid]

2017, I think he announced the exit poll results, but basically said he didn't believe them.

 

[brogdale]

Is he still in a job John Curtice? last two election nights I stayed up for he spectacularly got totally wrong right up to about 2 am (which is several hours of chatting on TV). Brexit and Trump I think they were, might've been 2017 UK though. Huffed and puffed with overconfidence then went very quiet

 

[Puddy_Tat]

i'm always a bit cautious when politicians declare they have won before the result has actually been declared

 

[Nine Bob Note]

It's Saturday night and I'm watching rolling news coverage of the mayoral elections in Birmingham, a city which, to my knowledge, I have never so much as passed through

 

[belboid]

It's official. By 1,508 votes.

Oh dear, what a shame, never mind.

 

[brogdale]

Back to the Sunak's time is up thread now, then?

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Yeeeeeeeeeees!

 

[brogdale]

Blimey, that Parker bloke's a bit rubbish; embarrassing

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Blimey, that Parker bloke's a bit rubbish; embarrassing

He’s not Street. That’ll do.

 

[belboid]

70k for Yakoob. Labour would have romped it if not for Gaza.

 

[Weller]

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